What's fascinating is my own sense of time has been somewhat frozen by the advent of digital technology. I'd grown up watching old clips of Pele, Carlos Albert

What's fascinating is my own sense of time has been somewhat frozen by the advent of digital technology. I'd grown up watching old clips of Pele, Carlos Alberto or Tardelli, then Maradona. They looked a certain way by the time I was 20. Then around the mid-2000s, everything went digital and soon HD as well. You can watch the 2006 World Cup and think it was happening live. The style of shorts has also more or less frozen, so it's not as easy as looking at 80s-style super short shorts to guess the year. Same goes with photos. My parents died and I got the family album. You can tell the different colors diffuse at different rates. Shots from the 70s look a different way to ones from the 80s and 90s. With my kids, everything is digital. I have pics of them from almost every day, and they look just the same. I think the fading process is actually faster than we think, as even those pics of the family from the 80s looked kinda old by the mid 90s.